The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.
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The Top Human Evolution Discoveries of 2025, From the Intriguing Neanderthal Diet to the Oldest Western European Face Fossil
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an unexpectedly primitive appearance. While its braincase fits with classic ...
A new study led by UCC paleontologists discovered that frogs have conserved their ecology in the last 45 million years. The ...
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An 8-meter shark fossil predates megalodon and rewrites the timeline
A newly described fossil from northern Australia reveals an 8 meter mega-shark that hunted in the age of dinosaurs, long ...
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Surprising fossil reveals spiders’ lost tails in unprecedented detail
We’ve not found fossils before that showed this, and so finding this now was a huge (but really fantastic) surprise,” ...
In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...
A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.
Paleontologists have discovered the first known fossilized bee nests built inside ancient bones, uncovered in a cave that ...
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